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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Michael Riexinger wrote:
+> Hi,=20
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+> i have a hp dl320 with an integrated raid controller. I don't want to=20
+> use that, instead i want to use gmirror. To use the 2 IDE drives, I=20
+> configured 2 raid0 arrays (each with 1 drive) in the controller's bios.=
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+> Now i wanted to use gmirror, labeled the second drive. When I did a=20
+> reboot, the raid controller's bios seems to overwrite the gmirror=20
+> metadata with its own metadata. Is it impossible to use gmirror witch=20
+> such a configuration?

I'll be very odd if controller's BIOS overwrite disk data.
Can you run 'gmirror dump <disk>' on labeled component?
Can you try label it again and run this comment directly after 'label'
command?

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